Removable handle to sad-irons



TLR. TIMBY, OE MERIDIAN, NEW YORK.`

REMovAisLn nnNpLE To san-InoueA i speiecaeioa pf Letters Patent No. 7,992, dated March 1s, i851.

To all whom 15mm/.concern .j

Be it known thatI, T; R. j dian, inthe countyof Cayuga and State of New York, have` invented a new useful Improvement in ,Sad and other Irons IforI Smoothing. andyPressing .by Hand; and `I i do hereby `declare that the :following is la full, clear, and exact description of my inpanying drawingsin which?. t,

Figure llrepresents a view in perspective ofy a` sad `iron constructed on the` plan inl` vented by me. j same, andFigs. Beandyt are viewsin pervention, reference being had to the accom? spective and section of a tailors goose with` my improvements applied thereto. l

It hasalways beena source of :great annoyance and inconvenience to those iwho use sad and other` smoothing irons thatsthe handles by which they are held and `manipulated must `be heated with .the rest ofthe 9 iron thus rendering itnecessary. to shield.l the handfrom burning by interposing` .a-

thick pad, or holder, of cloth or other bad conductor between it and the handle. This holder, being both cumbrous and elasticf prevents the operator from grasping the handle of the iron with the requsite `degree of firmness toproduce the required effects without a suthciently increased exertion of muscular force, over and above that required to manage the iron itself, to overcome `the elasticity of the holder and compress it upon the handle. The additional force required for this purpose subjects the muscles of the hand to a great-ly increased strain and corresponding increased fatigue.

Many methods have been essayed to obviate the disadvantages resulting from the heating of the handle most if not all of which have produced greater defects than those they were `designed to cure; thus for example smoothinfr irons have been constructed with handles that could be `removed while the iron was heating, but the method of attaching the handle to the heated iron was so insecure that unless the utmost care -was used in manipulating it the iron would most likely fall off and burn the operator,`

crush his toes, or perhaps damage itselfor other articles by its fall. On the other hand when the handle has been firmly secured by screwing it fast to the iron, so much time was consumed in connecting `and disconnecting the handle as to preclude its adoption to any considerable extent. j

TIMBY, of Meri-'i Fig. 2 is a `section-ofthe` To these and other equally serious objeta--` tions all the methods heretofore `devised of applying t. detached handles to smoothing irons are liable.

The object of my invention is to construct smoothing irons of all descriptions with de.-`

tachable handles` in suchmanner `that while j none of theadvantages of the fixed handle aresacrificed,all'those which can be de-A rivedfrom the removable handle are fully` a single handle answer for .an entire set of` irons, its construction being suchthat while itis instantly and` securely engaged withi any one ofthe irons, it `*is readily and `easily de; tachedtherefrom. when the iron is being" heated. j 91 j. The accompanying `drawings `represent. two varieties of mywmethod of constructing,` smoothing ironswith removable handlessx Thatrepresented at Figs. land 2` is,` affsad `iron for the 'ordinary ironing of clothes, it

consists of `a body A, Tor iron proper, and a removable handle Thelatter the present example is. formed of brass, that part` a to which the hand of theoperator is applied l beingfof such form as will enable .the oper-A ator to grasp it easily and to hold .it firmly;

`The hinder shank o of this handle has two ears c, projected from its sides, and the front shank is tted at its inner side with a spring catch d whose bolt `e projects through the shank; this spring catch is secured at its lower extremity to the lower part of the shank f, while its upper extremity is formed into a ring g in which the fore finger of the operator can be inserted without removing the hand from the handle. The body (A) of the sad iron is a block of cast iron whose face and edges are ground smoothin the usual manner; it is fitted at its upper side with lugs it, le, with which the Shanks of the handle engage. The hinder pair of lugs it h are ata suicient distance apart to `admit the hinder `shank of the handle begaged in the notches in the hinder lugs 7L, the handle is then pressed downward until its front shank enters the recess in the front lug c and the spring catch engages in its appropriate notch by which means the handle is securely locked to the iron. Vhen the handle is to be disengaged, the forefinger of the hand on the handle is inserted in the ring g which being drawn inward detaches the bolt e from the notch in the lug and allows the handle to be turned upward and disengaged from the hinder lugs L. A single handle may therefore be used for manipulating a complete set of irons only one of which is in use while the others are being heated, and as the handle is not heated with the irons it does not become too hot to be handled with the naked hand and therefore permits the operator to dispense with the cloth or holder which is usually required. This method of attaching handles to smoothing irc-ns admits of many modifications, one of which I have represented at Figs. 2 and 3. .In this example the lugs on the iron,y are merely pins L lc in which notches are made to receive the spring catches s of the removable handle B. Sockets are formed in the Shanks of the handle to admit the pins la, 7c, of the iron and each shank is fitted with a spring catch e e to engage in the notch of its appropriate pin. This handle is applied to the iron by passingit directly downward upon the pins. The two catches are connected by a rod m, so that when the front one is disengaged vby the forenger of the operator the latter is simultaneously disengaged by the same operation and the handle can then be removed from the iron by simply lifting it.

Many other modifications of my invention might be represented but those above described are deemed suiiicient to enable a constructor of smoothing .irons to use my invention; thus for eXample in the smoothing iron represented at Figs. 2 and 3 the Shanks of the handle might terminate in pins having spring catches within them while the lugs on the iron might have the form of sockets to receive the shanks of the handle. Such and similar devices are obviously mere modifications of my invention as they do not substantially differ from it either in principle or in their mode of operation. In those cases in which it is necessary that the irons must be heated to a high temperature and must be frequently changed the handle, if made entirely of metal may become unduly heated. I therefore intend to form the handle partly of metal and partly of some bad conductor of heat, as glass, ivory, or wood7 which is suiiciently incombustible to withstand the heat and which will prevent it from being conducted to the hand of the operator.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The method herein described of constructing sad, tailors, and other hand smoothing irons with handles which can be readily and securely attached to the iron and easily detached therefrom substantially as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

T. It. TIMBY.

Witnesses:

L. C. DONN, P. H. WATSON. 

